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04315aam a2200349 i 4500 001 AC744638533D11EC9185B7CB4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211202010028 008 210216s2021 sz a b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 303071392X 020 $a 9783030713928 035 $a (OCoLC)1237632693 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d PPN $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 050 4 $a T14.5 A97 2021 100 1 $a Ayres, Robert U., $e author. 245 14 $a The history and future of technology : $b can technology save humanity from extinction? / $c Robert U. Ayres. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Springer, $c [2021] 300 $a xviii, 830 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes." --from back cover. 505 0 $a Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: Before the Industrial Revolution -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Fire and Water: Technologies Extending Nature -- 2.1 Bipedalism: Down from the Trees -- 2.2 Pottery, Cooking, and Mobility -- 2.3 Keeping the Dark at Bay -- 2.4 Pain, Anesthesia, and Surgery -- 2.5 Water Management and Farming -- 2.6 Agriculture -- 2.7 Extensions of the Legs: Mobility and Transport -- 3: Extensions of the Body -- 3.1 From Skin to Fibers -- 3.2 From Fibers to Fabrics and Clothing -- 3.3 From Caves to Walls to Settlements 505 8 $a 3.4 From Teeth and Claws to Bows and Arrows -- 3.5 Metallurgy -- 3.6 Firearms and Explosives -- 4: Words and Music -- 4.1 Cave Art -- 4.2 Writing and Stories -- 4.3 Tokens, Numbers, Ideographs, Pictographs, and Cuneiform -- 4.4 Logography: Shift from Visual to Aural -- 4.5 The Alphabet: Segmentation of Sounds -- 4.6 Musical Notation -- 4.7 Musical Instruments -- 4.8 From Numbers to Arithmetic And Algebra -- 5: Printing, Movable Type, and Books -- 5.1 Precursors of Paper -- 5.2 Gutenberg, Movable Type, and the Bible -- 5.3 The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of Knowledge 505 8 $a Part II: The Age of Fossile Fuels -- 6: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Science -- 6.1 Money and Credit -- 6.2 Universities and "Higher Learning" -- 6.3 Alchemy and Chemistry -- 6.4 Magnetism and Electricity -- 6.5 Philosophy and Astronomy -- 6.6 Entropy, Complexity, and the Universe as a "Heat Engine" -- 7: The First Stage of Industrialization: Coking and Canals (1712-1820) -- 7.1 Coking and Iron Smelting -- 7.2 Coal and Canals -- 7.3 Foundations of Chemistry -- 7.4 The Alkali Industry and Soap Making -- 7.5 Phosphorus and "Safety Matches" -- 7.6 Rubber 505 8 $a 8: Machine Tools and Mechanization -- 8.1 Attaching Metals: Welding, Soldering and Brazing, Riveting -- 8.2 Screws, Machines, and Machine Tools -- 8.3 Ball Bearings and Roller Bearings -- 8.4 Printing Inventions -- 8.5 Clocks, Automata, and Watches -- 8.6 Locks and Keys -- 8.7 The Repeating Rifle and the Safety Pin -- 8.8 The Zipper Fastener -- 8.9 The Bicycle -- 9: The Triumph of Steam and Steel (1820-1876) -- 9.1 From a Pump to an Engine -- 9.2 Trevithick's High-Pressure Steam Engine -- 9.3 Mechanization of Textile Manufacturing -- 9.4 George Stephenson and the Railway Boom 505 8 $a 9.5 The Hot Blast and Cheap Steel -- 10: Petroleum and Petrochemicals -- 10.1 Petroleum, the New "Black Gold" -- 10.2 Coal Gas for Streetlighting -- 10.3 Aniline Dyes -- 10.4 Synthetic Fibers: From Rayon to Orlon -- 10.5 Fertilizers and Nitrogen Fixation -- 10.6 Petroleum Refining Technology -- 11: Anesthesia, Surgery, and Modern Medicine -- 11.1 Anesthesia, Analgesics, and the Conquest of Pain -- 11.2 Antiseptics and Antibiotics -- 11.3 Immunology and Vaccines -- 11.4 Opiates and Drug Injection -- 11.5 Sulfa Drugs -- 12: Mobility: From Rails to Roads to Space Travel 650 0 $a Technology $x History. 650 0 $a Technology $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Technology and civilization. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220202020656.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AC744638533D11EC9185B7CB4CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search